In the 1850 US Federal Census for District 68, Clinton, Illinois, 42-year-old Georgia-born farmer Zachariah Crawford owns $1,500 worth of real estate. He and his 36-year-old Kentucky-born wife Emaline [sic] [Elington] Crawford have in their household their Illinois-born children, 15-year-old Alexander, 14-year-old Thomas, 12-year-old Harriet, 10-year-old Eliza, 8-year-old Elizabeth, 6-year-old Lucinda, 4-year-old Arthur, 2-year-old Mary Ann and 3-month old Lewis C. Thomas is the only one of these children to have attended school in the past year.